 What you're drinking that's what I'm always drinking pee my wife made it fresh Nice. Hope she doesn't have a UTI Hey, welcome back for stupid reaction needs of Corbin. I'm gross and you follow the Instagram and Twitter problems with the content Well, sometimes thanks on patreon phones to the cap subscribe if you haven't like button I mean if you follow me on Twitter, you're gonna see a ton of just Nothing But you can follow the official or stupid reactions Twitter account. That's true and my Twitter account. That's true Instagram you'll see very little You'll you'll see a little bit more of me on Instagram a little bit anyway today. We're doing a movie of you Whoa, look what I did. I Combined the looking here with the handle because I had this in my hand. And so I was given it that motion I love that motion. I do too Gross Today we're doing a movie The 17th film the Malayalam film takeoff Directed by That's my hesh Not again who we've seen give the mispronunciation See you soon. And I think something else But he also wrote this one as well, but I think this is one of his I think it was one of his Because he was early on was he was an editor first early right? Why do I want to say this is a debut? See you soon Editor editor editor to take off director. Okay Editor editor editor editor editor editor. Yeah, so if it's not his debut you guys can let us know Obviously we I know him as the editor and then obviously we've seen his other two films Which we actually really enjoy the Malak and see you soon enjoyed both of those, but obviously starring let me go back here Because Fafa is in it, but he's not the star. No, he is not a not a star. Havathi Duravothu and Is that yeah, yeah as Shahid it's a qunchakal boben and then obviously Fafa is also in it as well supporting Came out in 2017. So if you haven't watched it go watch it we I Think India has it on hot star hot star is not available here. So we had to go to other means to watch it Rick had to go through a bunch of ads. Yeah, which makes no sense because it's not supposed to have ads It's so annoying logged in and there's still ads and very very annoying. Yeah, anyway So it'd be a hundred cents for you then watch go watch it come back And you can tell me what you thought I this was a mixed bag for me this me too Yeah, I thought there was some good stuff and especially in the second half I much more enjoyed the film in the second half And a lot of it might have to do with maybe some financial Constraints could be or maybe just being a new director Stuff like that, but a lot of it was like technical for me Yeah, also like the the first half there was some, you know pacing and then there was just the other stuff That will that we'll get into but yeah, it was a mixed bag for me I agree It was a mixed bag and I say that with with kind of a feeling sorry to say that because I feel like With most with most movies unless it's just straight out, you know All they were doing was trying to make money then I don't have any qualms whatsoever complaining about it But I felt like this was a very genuine attempt at making a film not a movie Yeah, and and the fact that it misses in some spots that we'll get into Hurts, yeah, but it also doesn't make me not Suggest it as long as you go into it knowing the things we'll talk about I Would prefer there's a lot of other movies. I'd prefer prefer people don't see and see this. Yeah. Yeah, so absolutely Yeah, I think there there's a lot to like about this. Yeah, it's like it's like it They should be encouraged for having done. I think their best that they could with what they had Yeah, I totally agree because there's a lot that I that I did really enjoy especially in the second I felt thought the movie could have even started at the interval almost It could have although I actually but you did care about the characters. Yeah because of the first I I actually enjoyed the first half in terms of the care Yeah, and and appreciated just going along with the story of this couple particular the fact that they're dealing with some things That too many people deal with all the time which was a different form of orthodoxy, which you'll hear me say that word a lot in this review Yeah, but let's just get into My the problem is a pervati. She is She my favorite part of this entire film me too. She did a phenomenal job. She does a great job Carrying the film. Yes, she does yep, and I think actually the other girls as well did a really good job I think as a whole the ladies are better than the man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, obviously Fafa did well But it's not like he didn't this wasn't a role for him to shine in though. So it's like yeah, it was it was Um Just kind of like okay. Yeah, Fafa did well did what you're supposed to do. Yeah, it's a but obviously this is not This is not his vehicle. This is all about these vehicles. No. Yeah, it would be it's like even if you put earfon in this Yeah, it would have been like he did well. He did great. Yeah, and that's really all you had a chance to show everybody to do That role she though and I know people have been telling us to get to over for a long time because she's one of the better actresses in Some say she's the best actress in Molly Adam cinema It shows and we've seen her one other time, and I don't know if you remember where it was But I wouldn't off the top of my head. You're probably gonna shock me. It was in a supporting role in Bangalore days Really? Yeah, I Would have never placed that spent a long time. Yeah, it was a long time But yeah, we saw her in Bangalore days, and I'm sure we liked her And no he's also in a virus as well. I was gonna that's the one I was just gonna say I was thinking you know what? I bet it was virus because so many people have come up in that film But when you said Bangalore days, which was our trivia first film after the pandemic Started because I was like, hey, let's watch a movie about pandemic. We're all gonna be in this for the next few weeks Yeah, let's just what? We were so naive. Yes, we were anyways, but yeah, I loved her performance I love the nuances. She brought to it. I love the emotion that she brought to it. Yep in the complexity of this character and her relationships to Everyone I agree completely. She was believable all the time. She is what kept me Connected and invested when it it never went off the rails That's a term we like to use all the time I felt like it got a little off track at points in in the story and But we'll get into that in a second performance wise. Yeah, the best thing about the movie for me is her performance She's what holds the thing together. Yeah, absolutely. I totally agree. I would love to see more of her So please yeah, I would do more and I like we said, I thought Fafa did a good job Yeah, but he's just a small supporting role No, it's one of those things where you could have put any able actor in the role and they would have done a fine job Yeah, what you get with him is the fact that everybody knows it's Fafa Yeah, and you're gonna enjoy the fact that he's in the film But this was even before like everybody was like Fafa crazy, right? Fafa crazy never right, right exactly And then I thought even though he was even smaller. I feel in Fafa Conchocco Bowman. Yeah, I enjoyed him. I thought he did well I didn't he wasn't pervathi level, but he I thought he did an admirable job. I agree in it as well. Agreed the The the another thing I really enjoyed about this film was the the second part Pacing I thought was much much better than the first half pacing Well, and you have a completely different kind of story. Yeah, it's almost two different films Yeah, you do they literally the action doesn't start until after the interval correct and so and then obviously the stakes are extremely high Yeah, and obviously it's a true story and from what I well partially partially Yeah, but what I'm told they stick for the most part for the most part what happened outside of I think they were like 40-something people Yeah, as opposed to as opposed to the 19, which yeah, it's understand that The majority of this and we're we're talking about this assuming everybody's seen it because this is five years ago Yeah, so and I'm assuming everybody knows about the event too Yeah, and the event but that there was a deal that was made with the with the world family in some way Yeah knows what that is. Yeah that the girls were treated. Okay They played off the fact that they weren't all Muslim But made them believe that they they were which is truly remarkable Mm-hmm I Don't know how much of it took place like the the scene where she went to go get the phone from the girl in the shower Yeah, it may have happened. I found it hard to believe that a woman would get away with talking to Soldier of either I suppose or dash. Yeah that way it's just because she was Muslim may have been I don't know may have I did enjoy that scene a lot And one thing they didn't clarify and maybe they didn't in real life But I would have thought as well and again, this could be my ignorance that they would have wanted to clarify not that not just that you're Muslim But are you are you are you Sunni? But in particular because of the different branches that those organizations are I wouldn't want to say they're representative of but that they claim to have the Cart blanche understanding of and everybody else is invalid. Yeah, but anyway, I did I was just so minutia of paying attention. I did enjoy the pacing and especially in the second half I thought that it definitely it's better to have a I think a stronger second half than a if you're gonna have one of the other Strong stronger second half. Oh, yeah, because obviously you don't want it to just die off and in all that No, and you needed to establish the the the I mean if you have any kind of empathy, you're gonna care about these ladies anyway Yeah, but but the fact that we get a human interest story in the midst of this which I understand You need to have it and I don't know if They just weren't able to access real autobiographical stories because people didn't want to share them Because my you know for if I'm producing directing or in the creative control of a film I would rather have the real stories than create a fictional one Yeah, absolutely, but my guess is maybe they really maybe none of these ladies wanted to talk about it Oh, and they wanted to tell the story. So they came up with a concept that was very believable Yeah, I really believe that we had to care about this family. Yeah, and I enjoyed And it looks like he did the edit. I mean that makes sense. I mean that makes total sense There was a couple points where like you got shocked at some of the stuff that happened Yeah, like when the the hospital like blew up. Yeah, it was like genuinely. I was like, oh geez. Yeah, what just happened? Yeah, and so though I liked all those elements. I thought they kind of carried itself Oh performance thing before we get more into the story just one of the thing about the performances some of the smaller roles like not even supporting were Yeah, hard. Yeah. Oh, I was gonna get into the stuff that I had more problems with after after I was done inflammation. Yeah, cuz I have the same There was there was some white actors, but it wasn't just the white actors. No this time Yeah, but there was some and they were just as bad as always But yeah, I enjoyed those aspects I Like the score as well score. I liked it I it was a little too over dramatic for me a lot of times for me It got a little soap opera E at the end. Well, yeah, a lot of things got that way at the end. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was there was definitely an over dramaticness. Yes of a lot of Things going on even in the beginning. I didn't love the the some of the times over dramaticness of like them Just talking and that's the soap opera Kind of music going on behind it. I get it It's kind of just how India's done it for a long time and it's a different style That's just not mine. Yeah, so I I'll chalk that up to just creative differences Something cuz it happens a lot in Indian films. It does it like that was over the top of like no That's just how we like it. I'm like, okay, cool. Whatever. It's just not my thing, right? Yeah I don't like it It got a little too over the top for me, especially in the in the in the score It did it only did that for me a little bit toward the end when everything started a little bit over dramatic A little too raw Ross is boom-ba. Yeah, the kind of complaints we had about 83 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that that that happened a little bit toward the end there And that's when the score for me got a little bit is like, okay, that's another thing. I feel like India is like People love that feeling I guess of in the in the film of being able to have this national pride and well We do too here in America, but it's it sometimes just a little heavy-handed. Yeah when you take it to the place of I'm not saying it was this but when it feels like it's entering the realm of not Celebration but manipulation or capitulation then I lose interest because the motivation behind it to me isn't It's it's just to yeah make you get the feels versus being genuine in the moment Yeah, that was some of the stuff that was a little over the top for me just a little just a little for the most part I thought the writing was good. There was some aspects that got a little cheesy at times as well And so that's why it's simplistic. Yeah, sometimes that's why I said This is a very mixed back because sometimes I'm like, oh, that's really good The writing was really good there right and then sometimes it's like and then sometimes I like to score a lot And then sometimes I'm like that was a little too over dramatic and then same thing That's why I said it's a very mixed bag film for me and then also on the performances You have some great performances like pervathi, right does a phenomenal job and then Papa obviously does well But the smaller smaller roles like some of the terrorists are like and then obviously you just have terrible people like the white people coming in and Yeah, like she came in. I was like, oh god, I know the minute they come on screen man. Oh my god Deliver a line. How hard is it? Amazing apparently it's really difficult You know There's a reason they don't have acting reality shows kids It's a very very difficult art form Not everybody can just get up and do it. Yeah, so yeah Overall, I thought I'd give this film probably about a 75 out of 100. Yeah, I gave around I gave it like two and three-quarter stars Okay Which on my scale, that's actually not bad because that means that there's elements of it that I you know Not everything's gonna be a five. That's hit me out of the park But it does where it misses for me is is the things we've already talked about I don't want to harp on on anything because there there wasn't anything that's like blatantly awful There's been many movies. We've seen yeah, where I've grown out loud And oh my goodness and looked at the clock and went how much more do I have to sit there? Yeah, I was never there No, I stayed and engaged. I thought they did for what they probably had as a very low budget I'd imagine the budget was real low. I thought that their their Graphic damage to people from bombings and stuff was actually quite good makeup wise Yeah, that could have sucked and they did a really I thought an admirable job the makeup crew should be commended Yeah for what they probably had as a very low amount and a pretty unforgiving work by obviously the direction of Mahesh But the cinematographer Sunoo John Varghese forgive the witness mispronunciation But there were some pretty unforgiving shots to give you that sense of what the nurses have to look at in the horror for Me the largest thing for me is her performance, but above all The story has a level of I mean, how do you not call this an important story? Because it is based on a real event. Yep, and there's there's so much not said about this event because You don't have this event If you don't have what we did to Iraq. Yeah preceding it a few years prior what America did something do a rock because you all of this happens joke because We created that atmosphere for it to happen That's the underlying sickness. I felt watching this thing. Yeah was How yours truly included at the time had been manipulated by my government and our allies to believe the lie That now had Saddam Hussein been funding terrorists. Absolutely. He had been yeah, did he did awful evil things? He sure did but trying to make a connection between him definitively and this threat of weapons of mass destruction that Never materialized. Yeah, and I think it's pretty ironic that Former president Bush had the faux pas the other day. I Don't know if you heard that no, and I did But yeah, I heard that I had the same me was underlying all of this. I'm watching every moment thinking It's no different than Syria, man We created this situation and nobody really in America seems to be how many innocent How many innocent people were hurt because of what we do is of us? Yeah, I had the same feeling But it's I did my like my I think my favorite thing is the same thing as well The the overall story and I think that the second half definitely carried the film for me But then also pavathi's performance and getting to know this aspect of the ISIS and the war in Iraq Yes, from the Indian perspective. Yeah, it's always also so interesting to see Wars that we've grown up learning just obviously from the American side usually understandably or maybe the Iraq side Those are usually the two sides of the two main people But there's two main people but there's obviously always people that are impacted that you don't anticipate Impacting correct and usually you only get that in very well researched films or you always get that in a good documentary Yeah, but it is important. That's that's why for me the big takeaway from this if anyone said should I watch it? I'd say you absolutely should it's an important story Yeah, and you're gonna see a great performance by the leading actress just go in with some Understanding about this being low-budget Maybe some things that happen with the writing that might not be very believable and maybe some saccharine sweet like nationalism at the end But if you just set that in your mind and sit back and it and relax you're probably gonna enjoy the movie Yeah, I agree. I totally agree And it even though I say it's a mixed bag. It's I still think it's a film that's worth watching me too It's a good film more positive. Yeah, I totally totally agree. Yeah, but anyways, let us know What you thought about this film and what should be our next pervati? Specifically thought of one of the things I said it's a orthodoxy a lot and I yeah He didn't but that was one of the things that from the very beginning and all the way through It just hammered home because it's been on my mind a lot in the past several years, but it's getting even more intense as in The country we're getting close to mid-term elections And we just had our mass shooting that we did which immediately draws lines in the sand between the two parties Yeah, but this movie in the both the beginning on a personal level and in the second half on a larger governmental and country level underscores The fact that in my humble opinion, I think there's no greater evil in this world than religious orthodoxy and that religious orthodoxy is the preeminent enemy of Liberty And that has nothing to do with any country that you come from anytime Liberty and freedoms are infringed It is almost always a result of either two things. Yeah racism Mm-hmm or religious orthodoxy. Yeah, and it is It is it is so painful to rehash things that not only took place in the past that should have never happened but to know that it's The more things change the more it stays the same it's still going on. Yeah These bad actors not the white ones The white ones the marriage the ones that want to Propagate their theocracies and it happens in every place Need to Just go away. Yeah, I totally agree. I totally totally agree And so let us know what you thought about this film, which will be the next Malayalam film in the next pervathi specifically Yeah, I love love to watch more of her work, especially her thespianatic work Please send it our way so we can watch it like it's hot Let us know down below